Storage battery and container therefor



Nov. 3, 1931. 'R. A. KLOCZK STORAGE BATTERY AND CONTAINER THEREFOR Filed Nov. 8, 1924 INVENTOR. d7

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RAYMOND ni noc r, or GLOSTER, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, n'Y nmsnn Assmmrms, 'I'O GOULD STORAGE BATTERY conromrron, or 13mm, NEW YORK, A conrom- TION OF DELAWARE i STORAGE BATTERY AND THEREFOR Application fileifl'ovember 8, 1924. Serial No. 748,532.

As is well known, storage batteries or accumulators during periods of charging and discharging give 011 minute quantities of gases of a corrosive nature. 'When the batteries are stored in a cabinet containing metal parts, as, for example, in cabinets inwhich there is both radio and phonographicap-' paratus, these gases, though minute in amount, may be quite damaging to the metalhe parts of such apparatus. It is therefore advisable" in such 'outfits to encase the storage battery and the rectifying apparatus, if present, in a container having suitable venting means, whereby such gases will be kept away from the metallic parts in the cabinet. An arrangement of this .sort is described and claimed in the, application of A. H. Synder, Serial No. 726,582 filed July 17, 1924, Patent No. 1,633,137 dated June 21, 1927.

In employing such an arrangement, it is desirable that the electricalconductors'from the battery terminals be brought through the container walls by simple and effective means without giving rise to leakage of gas through such walls and that means be provided for readily connecting the battery leads to and disconnecting them from the terminals of the conductors.

My invention relates to such means and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view with parts broken away of a preferred embodiment;

I Fig. 2 is a side elevation, also showing parts broken away and removed; Fig. 3 is a View in section of my improved terminal and is taken along the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. 4 j I Referring to the drawings, 10 denotes a container of rubber or similar material having a lid 11 suitably secured by clamps 12. Fillin the container is shown a sto battery 0 three cells 13, 14 and 15, each of which is separated bypartitions 16. The cells are shown connected in series by bus bars 17 arid 9 and the spacebetween the to of cells*13,' 14 and 15 and the lid 11 is vente by means of a short tube 20.

In order to bring the battery terminals to the exterior of the container 10 through a 25 which is locatedaizially and resented as having a reduced threaded end means for the re dy attachment of the elec ship therewith. The member 21 preferably.

trical conductors, I preferably provide for has its inner end thickened and extending through said thickened end is a which is rep- 22 projecting beyond the socket and carry- 1ng a nutr22 Intermediate its ends the stud or prod has an enlarged portion 25 embedded within the material of the thickened end of the socket. The numeral 23 designates a conductor leading to the adjacent terminal post of the storage battery and this conductor is disposed about the nut 22. Preferably socket member 21 and conductor 23 are made oflead, which is and such burned to one another and the conductor 23 burned to the battery terminal 24;. The stud 25' ma consist .of a harder metal, such as brass. other materials may not corrodable by the gases be used, as, for examsocket member 21 may consist of hard rubber or other dielectric material and stud- 25, Regardless of the detail as to materials, it 1s apparent that the socket member is cast ormolded about the stud or prod. The prod is represented as terminating withinthe. socket so as not to strike a cent objects and be broken inst any adjay such contact. to have a suit- This stud or prod is adapted shown, engaged thereable terminal clip,'not on. It will seen that I have provided a gastlght term nal which will not corrode and that such construction has many advantages over a wire passing through the wall of the container which latter arrangement is subected both to gas leakage through the joint and to corrosion of the wire and other metal v parts in proximity to thebattery.

I cla m: 1. A container having therein an electric accumulator or the like, venting meanstherefor, an inwardly concaving lead socket member passing through a wall of said container 100 J stud or prod;

owever, it will be understood that v parts are preferably welded or substantially flush with the exterior of said wall and making a gas tight fit therewith means composed of a metal harder than lea in the concavity of said member afiording an electrical connection, and a lead electric connection interior of the casing between said metallic means and a battery terminal.

2. In an assembl of the character described, a casingl o insulating material, a storage battery t erein and entirely enclosed there y, and a gas tight terminal structure for the battery comprising a metallicsocket member screwed through one wall of the easing, the socket member havin its inner and thickened, a metal stud exten ing axiall of the socket and having an enlargement em edded withinsaid thickened end, said stud having one end terminating within the socket and having thickened end and threaded, a nut member screwed upon said threaded end,'and a con ductor cast about the nut and connected with the storage battery terminal.

its other end projecting beyond said 

